Florida is the name of a region of North America, to the south of the Occupied Region. It was originally a Spanish colony, but then was given to Great Britain by the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The British divided the colony to East and West Florida. The British only kept the colony for twenty years though, as the Spanish regained it through the Treaty of Versailles in 1783, ending the American Revolutionary War. The Spanish encouraged settlement in Florida, leading many Americans to emigrate from the United States. Americans continued to move to Florida after the War of 1812.